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Show “aa The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Thursday, March 29, 2001 Pitiless McVeigh: ‘No Sympathy’ for Bomb Victims In new book, he calls deaths ofkids ‘collateral damage’ BY CAROLYN THOMPSON ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ” regretting only that theirdeaths detracted from his bid to avenge Wacoand RubyRidge, according to a new book. book represents the first time McVeigh has publicly and explicitly admitted to the crime and given his reasons for the attack. “T understand whatthey felt in Oklahoma City. I have no sympathy for them,” ep told the authors of American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City McVeigl. told Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, reporters for The Buffalo News, he did not know there was a day care center inside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the authors say on today’s broadcast of“PrimeTime Thursday.” “Tf had known there was anentireday care center, it might have given me pause to switch targets,” McVeigh said, according to the ABC broadcast. “That's a large amountofcollateral damage.” Michel said McVeigh’s only regret was that the children’s deaths proved to be a publicrelations nightmare that undercut his cause. Still, McVeigh said he was oe when part of the building remained stand_ing after his 7,000-pound bomb wentoff. “Damn, I didn’t knock the building down,” hesaid. The April 19, 1995, bombing killed 168 people, 19 ofthem children. McVeigh,32, is scheduled to be executed May 16. Tercat thet a war atially wees ieacat bully in the world, the U.S. government,” according to Herbeck. sae See ee McVeigh decided, had everything he wanted:federal agent and glass in the front, making it vulnerable and giving TV cameras a good shot. The morning ofthe bombing, like a soldier, he had cold spaghetti for breakfast. “Meals ready toeat . . .are meantfor high intensity. I'knew I was going through a firestorm and I would need the energy,” the GulfWar veteran said. Terry Nichols’ family when his Army buddy hesitated before helping toloadthe explosives into the rental truck. In 75 hours of prisoh interviews with the Buffalo reporters, McVeigh, who was raised in Pendleton, outside Buffalo, got choked up while talking about killing a gopher in a field, but never expressed re- morse for the bombing. However,he had been broughtto tears two years earlier while watching the disaster at the Branch Davidian compound House GOP Prevails in Vote Passing Bush Budget ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Republicans overwhelmed the Democrats and pushed a $1.94 trillion budget for 2002 through the House on Wed- nesday, as President Bush’s blueprint for tax cuts and curtailed spending cleared its first major congressional hurdle. 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